Using Ale & Arty's experience in supplying custom designed bottled beer to fundraisers we are confident that if you have a fundraising challenge we can develop a range of innovative ideas to help you make money in a fun and appealing way.

Our most recent project involved working with a fundraising project to raise funds towards the provision of a WW11 airfield memorial.

The fundraisng project appealed so much to Ale & Arty that we produced the artwork and enabled those involved with the project to sell the beer for the cause with Ale & Arty donating 50p for every bottle sold.

What was once Staplehurst Airfield to the east of the village, is now unrecognizable as anything other than farmland. The location of the airfield can only be discerned by looking at aerial photography and following the path of Chickenden Lane, which runs almost parallel to the former main 10/28 runway. A few wartime buildings remain at Chickenden Farm. For life-long village resident Ted Sergison, a renowned aviation historian, the quest to create a lasting memorial at the site of the two runways is moving apace.

Ted says,“The creation of a memorial will provide a focus for pilgrimage and remembrance for years to come. We, the residents of Staplehurst, must not allow the memory of the airfield to fade into history. For example, the 363rd Fighter Group lost 43 aircraft in operations from Staplehurst Airfield”.

The plan is for a large Kent Ragstone to have a polished granite insert carrying the badges of the squadrons that flew from the ALG. This would also include a panel denoting the position and angles of the two runways. It will be placed at Chickenden Farm (off Headcorn Road) close to a public footpath and flanked by flagpoles that will fly the national flags of Canada and the USA.

This is what we produced........

It depicts Colonel John R Ulricson who, in 1944 was the base commander, sitting on the wing of his Mustang P51 following a sortie. The spitfire above represents the Royal Canadian Air Force who were based at the field in 1943.

It's true to say that a number of bottles were purchased simply as a memento rather than for drinking.